Co-Directors Tierney & Kezar, together with the Center’s faculty, researchers, and staff issue a plea to congress to enact legislation that will protect DACA students. Letters were sent to CA congress as well as nationwide attorney generals and key congressional members. See the letter.
The I AM Program is currently accepting applications for prospective mentors. For more details and the application visit the I AM page.
Pullias doctoral student James Ward discusses the impact of the NYS Excelsior Scholarship and its unintended consequences of ‘free college’ on New York’s for-profit universities in the Brookings Report.
Join the faculty, researchers, and doctoral students of the Pullias Center for Higher Education presenting at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) this Fall. View our schedule of events.
USC News recently published an article detailing how the Pullias Center’s SummerTIME program prepares students for the challenges they will face in college.
Thirty Title I high schools took part in the “Mission: Admission Challenge” created in conjunction with Get Schooled, as part of the First in the World grant project. Read the story at USC Rossier News.
Join the faculty, researchers, and doctoral students of the Pullias Center for Higher Education presenting at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) this spring. Here’s our schedule of events.
At the 38th Annual Lecture, Freeman Hrabowski, President of University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), highlights the STEM achievement of first-generation college students there. Read the USC News story.
The I AM Program is currently accepting applications for prospective mentors. Email the Pullias Center for more details at pullias@usc.edu.
On the Huffington Post, James Dean Ward explores the Bennett Hypothesis through a comparison of for-profit and non-profit universities. Read more here.